The Months the Earth Stood Still Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself? George Case 19 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
Disease and Deception The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability. Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Oct 2022 · 12 min read
Spinning the Tavistock Story Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology. Bernard Lane 23 Sep 2022 · 12 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering Coping is not enough. We must strive to live. Samuel Kronen 5 Sep 2022 · 26 min read
Benevolent Cruelty America’s homeless problem is the product of good intentions and apathy. A new approach is needed. Adam G. Walterbach 30 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
We Won’t Force Addicts to Change We are wasting tremendous resources on ineffective, mandatory approaches to addiction. Craig K. Svensson 23 Aug 2022 · 13 min read
Should We Consider Aging a Disease? Rethinking human “enhancement” in an era of sick-care. Raiany Romanni 28 Jul 2022 · 6 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it. Gurwinder Bhogal 26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
The New Prohibition The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life. Ronald W. Dworkin 25 Jul 2022 · 10 min read
Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID—A Review While the overall U.S. response to the pandemic was tragically deficient, we can learn a lot from the public-private partnership that sped vaccine development. Josh Morrison 28 Jun 2022 · 7 min read
Shanghai on the Edge of Madness Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial Aaron Sarin 18 Apr 2022 · 6 min read
On DarkHorse, Ivermectin, and Vaccine Hesitancy The following transcript comes from an interview for Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars [https://www.academicapress.com/node/500]. It was conducted by Mark Halloran with Eric Topol on October 14th, 2021. Mark Halloran is Editor of Iconoclast. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a BA Mark Halloran 22 Mar 2022 · 24 min read
The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction Putting a patient under general anesthesia is a dangerous business. Waking a patient up from anesthesia is an ugly one. After I turn off the gas the patient typically thrashes and writhes like a sinner in Hell. Yet such resistance has never bothered me. I don’t want good and Ronald W. Dworkin 17 Mar 2022 · 9 min read
‘As We See It’ and the Changing Discussion About Autism The show frankly acknowledges issues frequently haunting persons on the autism spectrum. Jonathan Mitchell 28 Jan 2022 · 5 min read